2006 Australian Blog Awards – Nominations
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. It is our pleasure and honor to announce that Collective Apathy will be hosting the 2006 Australian Blog Awards. Yes… you heard it right.
CA might be hosting it, but Vlado is still running the show.
Due to circumstances beyond his control, Vlado has asked us here at Collective Apathy if we’d host this years awards… and of course we said “HELL YEAH!!!”
Anyway… Vlado will be keeping a close watch on everything… actually, he’ll be doing all the work again… we’re just letting him use our bandwidth. Nice of us, hey! The way we see it… we’re not getting anywhere near our bandwidth limits since the link to us dropped off the front page of Metafilter, and we’ve been a bit light on content lately, and it was Vlado that posted that link to us on MeFi… so, what the heck… let’s do it… especially if he’s doing all the work.
Better stop rambling and post this stuff sent to us.
The categories this year are:
- Best Overall Australian Blog
- Best Post on an Australian Blog
Location Categories
For a blog to be eligable for one of the location based awards, the blog’s main contributor(s) must reside in that state, territory or be overseas. A blog cannot be nominated for more than one of these blogs. Blogs with contributions coming equaly from more than one location will have to nominate which category they wish to contest.
- Best NSW Blog
- Best Victorian Blog
- Best Tasmanian Blog
- Best Queensland Blog
- Best West Australian Blog
- Best South Australian Blog
- Best Northern Territory Blog
- Best Australian Capital Territory Blog
- Best Overseas Australian Blog
Style Categories
- Best Humourous Australian Blog
- Best Designed Australian Blog
- Best Australian Personal Blog
- Best Australian Political Blog
- Best Australian Photo Blog
- Best Australian Tech Blog
- Best New Australian Blog
- Best Australian Collaborative Blog
- Best Australian Podcast or Video Blog
- Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog
Nominations can be made by leaving a comment on this post, and they will accepted until the first week of January 2006 (exact date to be announced). Once the nominations have been compiled they’ll be announced, the voting phase will begin and votes will be accepted up until ABOUT the 25th of January 2006. Once again, the announced of the winners will be SCHEDULED to coincide with Australia Day i.e. 26th of January. However, ALL dates quoted are subject to change depending on work load… so don’t be surprised if there’s slippage in the schedule.
The voting system will once again be the much loved optional preferential voting system… but before you take the easy way out and take advantage of the “optional” aspect of the system, please keep in mind that preferences were vital in several categories last time.
Finally, I ask that when you’re making your nominations
- you provide the sites name
- you provide the sites address
- you limit your nominations to ONE per category (that way each nominations should get at least one vote)
As I don’t want to have to try to decipher the nominations.
Okay. Time to get nominating… and spread the word about the 2006 Australian Blog Awards, and spread it early.
UPDATE: Another new category has been added… Best Australain Mainstream Media Blog – for those blogs run by the large newspaper, television etc companies… not that they need the extra exposure 🙂
Related Links:
2005 Australian Blog Awards
2004 Australian Blog Awards Nominations
2004 Australian Blog Awards Winners
[Originally posted on collectiveapathy.com and recovered from waybackmachine and reposted here 03 September 2023 – 1 2 3 4 5]
nomination
name: The Bartlett Diaires (formerly AndrewBartlettOnLIne)
address: www.andrewbartlett.com/blog
category: best Australian political blog
nomination
name: Larvatus Prodeo
location: http://larvatusprodeo.redrag.net/
categories: Best Australian Political Blog, Best New Australian Blog, Best Queensland Blog
nomination
name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
address: http://www.kitta.net
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
Best Australian Capital territory Blog – Ampersand Duck
http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com
nomination
name: Boring Like A Drill
address: http://boringlikeadrill.blogspot.com
category: Best Overseas Australian Blog
nomination
name: I’m on your computer
address: http://postmoronic.blogspot.com/
category: Best Humourous Australian Blog
nomination
name: For Battle!
address: http://forbattle.blogspot.com
category: Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Nomination
Name: Tassie
Address: www.tassie.com.au
Category: Best Tasmanian Blog
Nomination
1. Trollhattan Saab
2. Address – http://www.trollhattansaab.net
3. Category – Best Tasmanian Blog, Best New Australian Blog
Nomination
name: Ponderance
address: http://ponderance.blogspot.com
categories: Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Kitta.net
Little Red Monkey Forum
www.kitta.net
-Best Australian Personal Blog
Forgot one category
category: Best Australian Collaborative Blog
name: Larvatus Prodeo
Nomination
Name: Not The West
Address:http://notthewest.com.au/
Categories: Best Humourous Australian Blog
—-
Tama Leaver
b: http://ponderance.blogspot.com
e: tamaleaver [a][t] gmail [d][o][t] com
Name: Karen Cheng
Name: Karen Cheng
Address: http://www.karencheng.com.au/
Categories: Best Designed Australian Blog
Nom
Name: iGeneration
Address: http://i-generation.blogspot.com/
Categories: Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Nom
Name: SpiceBlog
Address: http://www.manthatcooks.com/
Categories: Best Australian Photo Blog [and, had their been one, Best Food Blog!!]
Nom
Name: Red Rag
Address: http://www.redrag.net/
Categories: Best Australian Political Blog
Nomination
Name: The Gadget Show
Address: http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/gadget/
Categories: Best Australian Tech Blog, Best Australian Podcast or Video Blog, Best West Australian Blog
Nominative Subject
Name: Sorrow at Sill’s Bend
Address: http://allordinary2.blogspot.com/
Nomination: Best Victorian Blog, Best Australian Photo Blog
Subjective nomination
Name: Moment to Moment
Address: http://blinkandyoullmissit.typepad.com/momenttomoment/
Nomination: Best WA Blog
Bollywood
Name: Ampersand Duck
Address: http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/
Nomination: Best Australian Personal Blog
Australian Pemberley Territory
Name: Crazybrave
Address: http://crazybrave.blogspot.com/
Nomination: Best Humourous Australian Blog, Best ACT Blog
nomination
Confessions of an A-League Junkie
penaltyspot.blogspot.com
Best Victorian Blog, Best New Australian Blog
Nomination
Name: ProBlogger
URL: http://www.problogger.net
Categories: Best Victorian Blog, Best Australian Tech Blog
nomination
Name: for battle!
Address: http://forbattle.blogspot.com/
Category: Best Australian Collaborative Blog
nomination
name: Pavlov’s Cat
address: http://pavlovblog.blogspot.com/
category: best new Australian blog
nomination
name: Ampersand Duck
address:http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/
category: best Australian personal blog
nomination
name: Daily Flute
address: http://dailyflute.com/
category: best humourous Australian blog
nomination
name: Sorrow at Sill’s Bend
address: http://allordinary2.blogspot.com/
category: Best Victorian Blog
Nominations
Best Queensland Blog
The Brisbane Window
http://www.brisbanewindow.com
Best New Blog
Greg Ferris
http://www.gregferris.net/greg_blog/wordpress
Best NSW Blog
Shuffle
http://discursivespace.net/shuffle
Best Photo Blog
PhotoSydney
http://photosydney.blogspot.com
Best Political Blog, Best South Australian Blog
The Road to Surfdom
http://www.roadtosurfdom.com
Best Victorian Blog
boynton
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/
Best Personal Blog
After Grog Blog
http://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/agb/
Best Collaborative Blog
Stoush.net
http://stoush.net
Best Humourous Blog
The Spin Starts Here
http://www.spinstartshere.com
Best West Australian Blog
Redrag
http://redrag.net
Best ACT blog
Crazybrave
http://crazybrave.blogspot.com
Best Overall
Barista
http://dox.media2.org/barista/
That’ll do for now. And I deserve a beer if I’ve got all those sodding tags right.
Best post: “A Socratic
Best post: “A Socratic Debate for a new generation” by harry at forbattle!
http://forbattle.blogspot.com/2005/09/socratic-debate-for-new-generation.html
(the comments appear if you click on “comment” – it’s just haloscan fibbing and saying there’s none)
Best other categories I thought up myself, perhaps unhelpfully:
Best “special interest” blog – spiceblog (link above) and flop eared mule (http://flopearedmule.blogspot.com/)
Best series – Rob Corr’s Industrial Relations Campaign updates (http://www.redrag.net/)
Hall of Fame Inductee – Barista
nomination
name: Karen Cheng
address: http://www.karencheng.com.au
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog,
Best West Australian Blog,
Best Designed Australian Blog,
Best Australian Personal Blog,
Best Australian Photo Blog
nomination
name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
address: http://www.kitta.net
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Nomination.
Name: Kitta.Net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey.
Address: Kitta.net
Categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog.
Nominations
Kitta.net – Don’t feed of spank the monkey
http://kitta.net
Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Humourous Australian Blog, Best Designed Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Nominations
name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
address: http://www.kitta.net
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Site
Site name: Yatima
Site address: http://www.yatima.org/
Categories: Best Australian Overseas Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Site name: stoush.net
Site address: http://stoush.net/
Categories: Best NSW Blog
Site name: Rusty’s Bleeding Edge Page
Site address: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi
Categories: Best Australian Tech Blog
Site name: John Quiggin
Site address: http://johnquiggin.com/
Categories: Best Queensland Blog
My Nominations
Best Overall Australian Blog
Barista
http://dox.media2.org/barista
Best Post on an Australian Blog
The Daily Flute: The Portrait of Dorian Beazley
http://dailyflute.com/?p=498
Best NSW Blog
Grab Your Fork
http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com
Best Victorian Blog
The Supermercado Project
http://www.drivelwarehouse.com/tsp2
Best Queensland Blog
Brisbane Window
http://www.brisbanewindow.com
Best South Australian Blog
The Road to Surfdom
http://www.roadtosurfdom.com
Best Overseas Australian Blog
Caseyporn
http://caseyporn.com
Best Humourous Australian Blog
The Daily Flute
http://dailyflute.com
Best Designed Australian Blog
Ausculture
http://www.ausculture.com/blog
Best Australian Personal Blog
Jellyfish Online
http://jellyfishonline.blogspot.com
Best Australian Political Blog
Machine Gune Keyboard: MGK
http://machinegunkeyboard.com
Best Australian Photo Blog
Shuffle
http://discursivespace.net/shuffle
Best Australian Tech Blog
Requiem (specialist Tech and other issues, but stil tech!)
http://requiem.net.au
Best New Australian Blog
Freeway 9
http://freeway9.blogspot.com
Best Australian Collaborative Blog
The Spin Starts Here
http://www.spinstartshere.com
Best Australian Podcast or Video Blog
G’day World
http://www.gdayworld.com/rss_mp3.xml
Thanks to all of them for a year of great reading!
Ben | PhotoSydney
Nomination
Name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or Spank the Little Red Monkey
Address: http://www.kitta.net
Categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Nominations
Best Overall Australian Blog: Reasons You Will Hate Me – www.reasonsyouwillhateme.blogspot.com
Best Post on an Australian Blog: “I’ve met my match” – I’m On Your Computer – http://postmoronic.blogspot.com/2005/05/ive-met-my-match.html
Best NSW Blog: Darp – www.isitwrongtowishonspacehardware.blogspot.com
Best Victorian Blog: Anonymous Lefty – www.anonymouslefty.blogspot.com
Best Tasmanian Blog: Piss ‘n’ Vinegar – www.pissnvinegar.com
Best Queensland Blog: Dawei – www.houseofdebaucheryandbeeyotching.blogspot.com
Best West Australian Blog: Tealou – www.tealou.com
Best South Australian Blog: Watchdog of the Wankers OF COURSE! – www.whingers.blogspot.com
Best Australian Capital Territory Blog: Red Wine and Vitriol – www.teejmahal.com
Best Overseas Australian Blog: Gimme Spirit Fingers – www.facepalm.blogspot.com
Best Humorous Australian Blog: I’m On Your Computer – www.postmoronic.blogspot.com
Best Designed Australian Blog: Daniel Boud – www.boudist.com
Best Australian Personal Blog: Jellyfish – www.jellyfishonline.blogspot.com
Best Australian Political Blog: Robert Corr – www.robertcorr.net/blog/
Best Australian Photo Blog: Daniel Boud – www.boudist.com
Best Australian Tech Blog: Adelaide Index – www.adelaideindex.com
Best New Australian Blog: Sternezine – www.sternezine.blogspot.com
Best Australian Collaborative Blog: Ausculture – www.ausculture.com/blog/
Nomination
Site address: http://www.papierdreams.net
Categories:
Nominations
Best Overall Australian Blog
reasons you will hate me
Best NSW blog
Daily Flute
Best Victorian blog
Father Bob Maguire
Best Australian personal blog
Smiling Politely
Best Australian political blog
Red Rag
Nomination!
The After Grog Blog.
Quality posting for a number of years.
http://aftergrog.drivelwarehouse.com/
Best Victorian blog.
Nomination
Name: The Inane Asylum
Category: Best Humourous Australian Blog
Address: http://aphertiser.blogspot.com/
Nomination
Best Overall Australian Blog
Barista dox.media2.org/barista
Best Post on an Australian Blog
Ask a Hyperactive Fat Kid sternezine.blogspot.com/2005/08/ask-hyperactive-fat-kid.html
Best NSW Blog
The Adventures of Queer Penguin queerpengiun.blogspot.com
Best Victorian Blog
fridaysixpm fridaysixpm.com/index.html
Best Tasmanian Blog
piss ‘n’ vinegar pissnvinegar.com
Best South Australian Blog
Watchdog of the Wankers whingers.blogspot.com
Best Northern Territory Blog
Troppo Armadillo troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com
Best Overseas Australian Blog
The Road to Surfdom roadtosurfdom.com
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Freeway 9 freeway9.blogspot.com
Best Designed Australian Blog
Glutbusters glutbusters.com
Best Australian Personal Blog
Ladycrackerland ladycrackerland.blogspot.com
Best Australian Political Blog
Anonymous Lefty anonymouslefty.blogspot.com
Best Australian Photo Blog
Sorrow at Sills Bend allordinary2.blogspot.com
Best New Australian Blog
Will Type For Food willtypeforfood.blogspot.com
Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Labour First Blog bloggers.laborfirst.com.au/bloggers/blog.asp?blogId=8154
missing category- Australian women's issues!
One glaring omission!
Best Australian Women’s Issues Blog
Suki Has An Opinion
http://machinegunkeyboard.com/shao/
Nominations
Best NSW Blog – Muffin – www.muffin.mishku.com
Best Victorian Blog – Dr Cam Sexenheimer – www.cam.bluexo.net
Best Tasmanian Blog – Piss N Vinegar – www.pissnvinegar.com
Best South Australian Blog – Watchdog of the Wankers – www.whingers.blogspot.com
Best Australian Capital Territory Blog – Samuel Gordon Stewart – http://samuelgordonstewart.com/
Best Overseas Australian Blog – Maytel (Cambodia) – www.maytel.blogspot.com
Best Queensland Blog – The Brisbane Window – www.brisbanewindow.com
Best Humourous Australian Blog – Jellyfish – www.jellyfishonline.blogspot.com
Best Designed Australian Blog – Bourbonbird – www.bourbonbird.blogspot.com
Best Australian Personal Blog – Nadstown – www.nadstown.boudist.com
Best Australian Political Blog – Andrew Bartlett Online – http://www.andrewbartlett.com/blog/
Best Australian Photo Blog – www.boudist.com – Dan Boud
Best Australian Tech Blog – I’m on your computer – www.postmoronic.blogspot.com
Best New Australian Blog – Can You Fly Like You Mean It? www.canyouflylikeyoumeanit.blogspot.com
Best Australian Collaborative Blog – www.melbs.org – Melbs (Live local music mp3 blog)
Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog – Ben Lewis – www.channelben.net
Best Australian
- Best Designed Australian Blog:JinkyArt
- Best Australian Photo Blog:Montmartre
- Best Australian personal blog:Boudist
Nomination
Name: Things I’ve Written
Address: http://thingsivewritten.blogspot.com
Categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best Victorian Blog, Best Humorous Australian Blog, Best New Australian Blog
Nominations
Category: Best Australian Personal Blog
Name: No Talent Time
Address: http://notalenttime.blogspot.com
Category: Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Name: The Spin Starts Here
Address: http://www.spinstartshere.com
Category: Best Designed Australian Blog
Name: The Line Of Contempt
Address: http://lineofcontempt.blogspot.com
Cateogory: Best Post on an Australian Blog
Post Name: Fifty-Five Words – Volume 2
Blog Name: Things I’ve Written
Address: http://thingsivewritten.blogspot.com/2005/11/fifty-five-words-volume-2.html
Nominations
Name: Mel’s Random Ramblings
url: http://melindak.blogspot.com/
Category: Best South Australian Blog
I nominate Samuel
I nominate Samuel Gordon-Stewart – http://samuelgordonstewart.com for the following:
Best Overall Australian Blog
Best ACT Blog
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Best Australian Personal Blog
Best New Australian Blog
Thnx 😀
Nominations from Ladycracker
Best Overall Australian Blog
Daily Flute
http://dailyflute.com/
Best NSW Blog
Freeway 9
http://freeway9.blogspot.com/
Best Victorian Blog
Anonymous Lefty
http://anonymouslefty.blogspot.com/
Best Brisbane Blog
Brisbane Window
http://www.brisbanewindow.com/
Best Overseas Australian Blog
Spirit fingers
http://facepalm.blogspot.com/
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Ausculture
http://www.ausculture.com/
Best Designed Australian Blog
Otherwise
http://otherwise.cc/
Best Australian Personal Blog
Ampersand Duck
http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Political Blog
Suki has an opinion
http://machinegunkeyboard.com/shao/
Best Australian Photo Blog
Red Rum
http://journals.concrete.org.au/redrum/
Best New Australian Blog
What that on my hand?
http://jobilates.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Lighter Fluid makes me go boom
http://makesyougoboom.blogspot.com/
Best Blog Post
Sternezine
http://sternezine.blogspot.com/
I Know Where You Live #5:Camberwell
From ladycracker – http://ladycrackerland.blogspot.com/
Nomination (Victoria)
name: DOGMATIC
address: www.dogmaticblog.com
category: best victorian blog
nomination
name:father bob
address: http://fatherbob.tk/
category: Best Victorian Blog
nomination
name: Through ChickyBabe’s Eyes
address: http://chickybabepics.blogspot.com/
category: Best Australian Photo Blog
nomination
name: Chicken or the Egg
address: http://chickybaberules.blogspot.com/
category: Best NSW Blog , Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
name: ThatFilthySpringbok.org
address: http://www.thatfilthyspringbok.org/
category: Best Queensland Blog
Nominations
The Blog Herald
Best Western Australian blog
Problogger.net
Best Victorian blog, Best Australian Tech Blog
The Spin Starts Here
Best Australian Collaborative Blog, Best Humourous Australian Blog
Nomination
Thanks to Ben for the nomination but I’m rejecting it. I’m not for these things. Please don’t add The Supermercado Project to the Victorian ballot.
Best NSW Blog – Angry Little
Best NSW Blog – Angry Little Man – http://angrylittleman.org
Best Victorian Blog – Funkwit – http://www.funkwit.com/
Best Australian Collaborative Blog – For Battle! – http://forbattle.blogspot.com/
Samuel Kicks Righteous Ass!!!
Best Overall Australian Blog
Best ACT Blog
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Best Australian Personal Blog
Best New Australian Blog
http://samuelgordonstewart.com
Nominations
Best ACT Blog
CRAZYBRAVE
http://crazybrave.blogspot.com
Best NSW BLog
DARPISM
http://www.isitwrongtowishonspacehardware.blogspot.com
Best QLD Blog
OF COURSE WE’RE GOING TO FLING POO!
http://www.rigothebear.blogspot.com/
Best SA Blog
WATCHDOG OF THE WANKERS
http://whingers.blogspot.com
Best VIC Blog
LADY CRACKERLAND
http://ladycrackerland.blogspot.com
Best WA Blog
GET ON THE BLANDWAGON
http://blandwagon.blogspot.com
Best New Blog
DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD
http://www.dangercurves.blogspot.com
Best Humourous Blog
KARMA TO BURN
http://ivegotkarmatoburn.blogspot.com
Best Designed Blog
NARIDU WONDERING
http://naridu.com
Best Personal Blog
MELBOURNE HUMAN FEMALE
http://someoneinmelbourne.blogspot.com
Best Collaborative Blog
AUSCULTURE
http://www.ausculture.com
Best Overall Blog
JELLYFISH ONLINE
http://jellyfishonline.blogspot.com
Best Overseas Blog
SIMONWORLD
http://simonworld.mu.nu
Nominate Myself?
Why not?
Best ACT blog
Loadedog
http://www.loadedog.com
nomination
Best Overseas Australian blog: Whitebait in the city http://whitebait.typepad.com/whitebait/
Best SA Blog: Pavlov’s Cat
http://pavlovblog.blogspot.com/
Best Victorian blog: A Wild Young Under-Whimsy
http://wildyoungunderwhimsy.blogspot.com/
Best Qld blog: Long-toothed hinterland dweller
http://hinterlander.typepad.com/weblog/
Best NT blog: Tjilpi
http://tjilpi.typepad.com/tjilpi/
Best Australian personal blog: personal political
http://susoz.typepad.com/personal_political/
Nominations
Best Overall Australian Blog – Culture Strain (http://www.culturestrain.blogspot.com)
Best Post on an Australian Blog – Diary of a Hume (http://reasonsyouwillhateme.blogspot.com/2005/08/diary-of-hume.html)
Best NSW Blog – Culture Strain (http://culturestrain.blogspot.com/)
Best Victorian Blog – Reasons You Will Hate Me (http://reasonsyouwillhateme.blogspot.com/)
Best Queensland Blog – Dawei’s House of Debauchery and Beeyotching (http://houseofdebaucheryandbeeyotching.blogspot.com/)
Best Humorous Australian Blog – Angry Little Man (http://angrylittleman.org/)
Best Australian Political Blog – Adventures of Queer Penguin (http://queerpenguin.blogspot.com/)
Best Australian Personal Blog – Dawei’s House of Debauchery and Beeyotching (http://houseofdebaucheryandbeeyotching.blogspot.com/)
riza – http://victimofnarcissism.blogspot.com/
Nominations
Best West Australian Blog
Not The West
Best Overseas Australian Blog
What’s new, Pussycat?
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Not The West
Best Designed Australian Blog
Aphic Design Blog
Best Australian Political Blog
Not The West
Best New Australian Blog
Flextime
Nomination
Name: The Blog Herald – More Blog News More Often
IRL: http://www.blogherald.com/
Categories: Best West Australian Blog
Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog
nomination
Best Overseas Australian Blog: Alien Ted
http://aliented.blogspot.com
Nomination
name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
address: http://www.kitta.net
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
name: Kitta.net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
address: http://www.kitta.net
categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
Nomination
Best NSW Blog:
Much Ado About Sumthin
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com
Best VIC Blog:
Ladycrackerland
http://www.ladycrackerland.blogspot.com/
Best TAS Blog:
Piss n Vinegar
http://www.pissnvinegar.com/
Best QLD Blog:
Of Course We’re Going To Fling Poo
http://www.rigothebear.blogspot.com/
Best WA Blog:
Trash Talk With Tealou
http://www.tealou.com/
Best SA Blog:
Watchdog of the Wankers
http://www.whingers.blogspot.com/
Best ACT Blog:
Teej Mahal
http://www.teejmahal.com/
Best Overseas Australian Blog:
Spirit Fingers
http://facepalm.blogspot.com/
Best Overall Australian Blog:
Jellyfish Online
http://www.jellyfishonline.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Personal Blog:
Of Course We’re Going To Fling Poo
http://www.rigothebear.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Collaborative Blog:
The Spin Starts Here
http://www.spinstartshere.com
Best New Australian Blog:
Sterne
http://sternezine.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Humourous Blog:
Spirit Fingers
http://facepalm.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog:
Radar
http://www.radar.smh.com.au/
Nomination
Best Victorian Blog:
Loobylu
www.loobylu.com
Best Australian Personal Blog:
Loobylu
www.loobylu.com
Blog nominations
Name: It’s a Bunnish World
Address: http://www.livejournal.com/users/buneater/
Categories: Best Australian Blog, Best Victorian Blog, Best designed Australia Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
Name: I’ts a Bunnish World
Address: http://www.livejournal.com/users/buneater/
Category: Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
For Best Humourous Australian Blog
Alien Ted
http://aliented.blogspot.com
WALKING ON THIN ICE
WALKING ON THIN ICE http://throwingthedice.com/blog/
Best Australian Capital Territory Blog, Best Australian Photo Blog, Best New Australian Blog, Best Designed Australian Blog
Nomination
http://jellibabi.blogspot.com – One Foot Down the Rabbit Hole
Best overall Australian blog
Best personal blog
Best Australian Blog
Best designed Australian blog
Best humorous Australian blog
Nomination
Name: Kitta.Net – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
Address: http://www.kitta.net
Categories: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Humourous Australian Blog, Best Designed Australian Blog, Best Australian Personal Blog
nomination
www.glamorouse.blogspot.com
It’s not a typo, it’s ironic.
Which category? Pick a category, any category! We fit any or all of these: Best NSW Blog; Best Humorous Australian Blog; Best Australian Personal Blog; Best Australian Collaborative Blog; Best New Australian Blog.
What can I say, we’re competitive over achievers.
Samel's best frend
Samel is the best!!! I love his cute littla dog!!!
Samel’s Blog
Best Overall Australian Blog
Best ACT Blog
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Best Australian Personal Blog
Best New Australian Blog
http://samuelgordonstewart.com
Farce
a) Why would anyone nominate themselves for an award?
b) Why do all the nominations for Kitta.net come in exactly the same format every time?
c) Can people stop nominating things that have already been put up 25 times? We know you all love Samuel, but so has every 2nd other person so far.
Would it be bad form to suggest that these things have as little credability as any of the other blogging “awards” going around? For that reason can be spared the wanky feuds and bitterness that always erupt over these things. It’s the online equivalent of the People’s Choice Awards so let’s not take them too seriously ok?
Re: Farce
a) probably because they want to boost their readership, and see what the blogsphere thinks of their site
b) Odd I agree. Either her readers are very keen cut and pasters or they have been put up to it.
c) I kind of agree, but don’t really care much either. It would be more interesting to see a diversity of nominations, rather than just the usual suspects. It would be nice to discover some new blogs too.
I don’t think people take this seriously, I’m sure I don’t.
Nomination for FDB
Name: FightDemBack!
Location: www.fightdemback.org
Category: Best Australian Political Blog
Blog Awards Nomination
I would like to nominate: Leany J in the City
http://leanyj.cooper-au.com
Best Queensland Blog and Best Australian Personal Blog
Cheers!
Nomination: Best PERSONAL blog
Melly Feline
It really is personal, and positive, which is rare.
Brownie
Nomination: 'Best Post On An Australian Blog'
Sorrow At Sills Bend ‘So Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were sitting …’.
This post is excellent for innovation, length, technical proficiency, amusement, intelligence, diversity, blogosphere encompassment, and HEART. Bravo LJC, a.k.a Lucy Tartan !
Brownie
nomination
category: Best Overseas Australian Blog
site name: leonthelion ##oneword##
site url: http://www.leonthelion.com/
rss2: http://www.leonthelion.com/l/?feed=rss2
Site description: An Australian volunteer/international activist and his tours through Aus, Japan, Korea and America.
Best Overseas Australian Blog
Name: Staypuff.net
Address: www.staypuff.net
Category: Best Overseas Australian Blog
I am afraid I do not know this gentleman personally, but he is an inspired and inspirational blogger, I do not know how I could exist without his daily updates and invigorating anecdotes.
Nomination
Best humorous blog: Gummo Trotsky
http://tugboatpotemkin.blogspot.com/
Nominations
- Best Overall Australian Blog- Much Ado About Sumthin!
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com/
* Best Post on an Australian Blog- Reasons I’m an idiot- Much Ado About somethin!
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com/2005/12/reasons-im-idiot-4.html
* Best Victorian Blog- I blogged myself
http://ibloggedmyself.blogspot.com/
* Best Queensland Blog- Token Woman-
http://tokenwoman.blogspot.com/
* Best West Australian Blog- Lori’s Cubes-
http://freakychick.net/
* Best Australian Capital Territory Blog- Crapping on
http://craponwhatever.blogspot.com/
* Best Humourous Australian Blog- Much Ado about Sumthin-
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com/
* Best Designed Australian Blog- Bourbon Bird perched-
http://bourbonbird.blogspot.com/
* Best Australian Personal Blog- Much ado about sumthin-
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com/
* Best Australian Photo Blog- Chickybabe’s eyes
http://chickybabepics.blogspot.com/
* Best New Australian Blog- Much ado about sumthin-
http://muchadoaboutsumthin.blogspot.com/
Nominations – when do they close, anyway?
- Best NSW Blog
* Best Victorian Blog
No way can I pick anyone here.
* Best Tasmanian Blog
Piss N Vinegar
* Best Queensland Blog
Troppo Armadillo? Is troppo from Qld or NT?
* Best West Australian Blog
* Best South Australian Blog
Watchdog of the Wankers. The competition, Dogfight at Bankstown, is pretty good too. OH WHY MUST COMPETITION BE SO CRUEL.
* Best Northern Territory Blog
* Best Australian Capital Territory Blog
* Best Overseas Australian Blog
Road to Surfdom.
These are difficult categories, because I don’t really know where most of the blogs I read regularly are actually based. Most of them don’t make a big deal about it.
Style Categories
* Best Humourous Australian Blog
What Was That On My Hand – http://jobilates.blogspot.com/
Sterne – http://sternezine.blogspot.com/
Daily Flute –
Reasons You Will Hate Me –
Watchdog of the Wankers –
* Best Designed Australian Blog
I have no nomination in this category. “Best designed” indeed. How on earth is that judged? Simple is almost always best. Larvatus Prodeo and Road to Serfdom have good layouts. Or what about AnonymousLefty? Hey, it’s a blogspot template WITH A BACKGROUND IMAGE!! That’s got to count, doesn’t it?
* Best Australian Personal Blog
Jellyfish Online –
Line of Contempt –
* Best Australian Political Blog
Larvatus Prodeo – http://larvatusprodeo.redrag.net/
The Bartlett Diaries – http://www.andrewbartlett.com/blog
Road to Surfdom –
* Best Australian Photo Blog
Lara barrett – http://larabarrettphotography.blogspot.com/
* Best Australian Tech Blog
No idea.
* Best New Australian Blog
What’s That On My Hand – http://jobilates.blogspot.com/
Electron Soup –
Freeway 9 – http://freeway9.blogspot.com/
* Best Australian Collaborative Blog
Larvatus Prodeo again.
* Best Australian Podcast or Video Blog
There’s an Australian podcast or video blog? Hmmm – I should just start one and I could sweep the category. POWER! FAME! GLORY! WASTED BANDWIDTH!
* Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog
Don’t read any of them.
My blog, AnonymousLefty, has been nominated in a few categories. If it’s going in there, please put it in the following categories: Victorian, humorous, personal, political, and (optimistically) (well, even more optimistically) overall.
I also think we need more categories. “Best cultural blog”, “Most amusingly foul-mouthed blog”, “Best travel blog written by my best friend”, “Best Blog sticking it up a right-wing newspaper columnist” etc.
ps we appear to be quite lefty-central here. I’ll nominate A Western Heart and Tim Blair’s Site of Villainy for political blog, just so there’s some actual competition.
ps sorry to everyone else on my blogroll – I couldn’t fit everyone whose blog I like on (although I made a start).
Nomination
Name : Deography
Address : http://deography.com
Category : Best Australian Photo Blog
Nomination
For Best Overseas Australian Blog i nominate Two Minutes Happiness
Closing Date for Nominations
Vlado writes –
Nominations will close on the 11th of January. Voting will begin on the 12th and will remain open for 2 weeks. Voting will close at midday of the 26th of January and the winners will be announced during an online ceremony that evening. More details to follow… but basically, there is only a few more days to get nominations in and to spread the word about the Australian Blog Awards… so get nominating and spread the word!!!
Some nominations
Best Designed Australian Blog – The Man in Blue
Best Tech Blog – ProBlogger
Best Overall Australian Blog – Reasons You Will Hate Me
Best Humourous Australian Blog – Ausculture
Nominations
Best Victorian Blog:
name: Fish8me
address: http://www.fish8me.com
Best New Australian Blog
name: Fish8me
address: http://www.fish8me.com
Best Overall Australian Blog
name: Fish8me
address: http://www.fish8me.com
nomination
name: antallergy.org
address: www.antallergy.org
category: Best Tasmanian Blog, Best Australian Political Blog
Self abuse
I thought the idea was to be nominated by someone else?
nominations?
Sorry guys, didn’t read the fine print. Will withdraw the nomination!
Nomination
Website: What’s the Go?
Web Address: http://drpelican.blogs.friendster.com/whats_the_go/
Nomination Category: Best Australian Personal Blog
Nominations
Best Overall Australian Blog
Making Girls Run Since 1982
http://www.makinggirlsrun.com
Best Post on an Australian Blog
Enraged Bull – “OMG Last Nitewas Shit!!
http://enragedbull.blogspot.com/2005/07/omg-last-nitewas-shit.html
Best Victorian Blog
Making Girls Run Since 1982
http://www.makinggirlsrun.com
Best Queensland Blog
The Disgruntled Employee Association
http://deacomplaintsdepartment.blogspot.com
Best ACT Blog
Samuel’s Blog
http://samuelgordonstewart.com
Best Humourous Australian Blog
Making Girls Run Since 1982
http://www.makinggirlsrun.com
Best Personal Australian Blog
melbournehumanfemale
http://someoneinmelbourne.blogspot.com
Best New Australian Blog
Shards of Ennui
http://www.shardsofennui.blogspot.com
To be taken for Cold and Flu
Nomination
name: image.a.nation
address: beilby.com/image.a.nation
category: Best Overall Australian Blog, Best West Australian Blog, Best Australian Photo Blog
Eschew obfuscation
nomination
Leany J In The City
- Best Humourous Australian Blog
- Best Designed Australian Blog
- Best Queensland Blog
Visit her site: Leany J in the City
Thanks but…
Thanks to anyone who has nominated www.spinstartshere.com for an award, and to Vlado for organising this. However I’m with Adam 1.0 and have decided we’ll be sitting this one out, so please don’t include us on the ballot paper. Vote 1 Samuel Gordon-Stewart!
Inspired…
…by boynton’s nomination to drag this thing out of a self promoting and clique bolstering bollockfest (no offence vlado, top job old son but democracy can be shite), here’s another nom:
Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog
The Poll Vault
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2005/weblog/
A nomination or three
- Best Humourous Australian Blog: Needs to be Glassed: http://needstobeglassed.blogspot.com
* Best Designed Australian Blog: Piss n Vinegar: http://www.pissnvinegar.com
* Best Australian Collaborative Blog: The Spin Starts Here: http://www.spinstartshere.com
Nomination
The Bartlett Diaries
http://www.andrewbartlett.com/blog
categories: best Australian political blog
nomination
Name: conditioned.org (by Dani Ringrose)
URL: http://www.conditioned.org/
Category: Best Queensland Blog.
Best West Australian Blog
Name: Miles’ Blog
URL: http://miles.burke.id.au/blog/
Category: Best West Australian Blog
nominations
Best New Australian Blog:
name: Theory and Practice
http://youareell.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Personal Blog:
name: Random Weirdness
http://arbitraryweirdness.blogspot.com/
Best Humourous Australian Blog:
name: Bland Canyon
http://blandcanyon.blogspot.com/
Best Australian Photo Blog
name: Photographs by Noranna Yasmin
http://www.norannayasmin.com/pblog/
Nomination
Name: my top hat
Address: www.mytophat.com
Category: Best Personal Blog
JungleJamie.com's my favourite
Jungle Jamiehttp://www.junglejamie.com
* Best Overseas Australian Blog
* Best Humorous Australian Blog
* Best Australian Personal Blog
* Best New Australian Blog
Dragon Girlhttp://dragongirl76.blogspot.com/
* Best QLD Blog
Aztec Gold
http://aztec-gold.blogspot.com/
* Best ACT Blog
Chris Glover’s Blog
http://jroller.com/page/complier
* Best NSW Blog
* Best Australian Tech Blog
blogs we may not have mentioned but I'm not sure
Who’se not included yet? Triffic list of people I haven’t seen before.
John Quiggin at http://johnquiggin.com/ for best Australian political blog, and best Queensland blog.
Invisible Shoebox at http://invisibleshoebox.blogspot.com/ for best designed.
Jozef Imrich at http://amediadragon.blogspot.com/ for Best Australian Personal Blog.
Antony Looowenstein at http://www.antonyloewenstein.blogspot.com/ for best mainstream media since this is an offshoot of his journalism work.
Road to Surfdom at http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/ for Best Political
Southerly Buster at http://www.southerlybuster.blogspot.com/ – don’t ever underestimate this quiet achiever. What category, there’s the rub.. Best NSW?
Tim Lambert at http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/. Best genius fighter in the country, but how does he fit? Best oz Political..
Personal Political at http://susoz.typepad.com/personal_political/ for Best Personal
The governor general at http://governor_general.blogspot.com/, for Best Humorous
Down and Out in Saigon at http://tphcm.blogspot.com/ for Best Australian Overseas (though I do love the cat too..)
She sells sanctuary at http://she-sells-sanctuary.blogspot.com/ which I am sneaking in as another for Best Personal. Now I am setting wise, wise women up against each other. Sniff!
Karma to Burn at http://ivegotkarmatoburn.blogspot.com/ for Best Victorian.
Teejmahal at http://www.teejmahal.com/ for Best Victorian. I must be living in two parallel universes at once.
Spiceblog at http://spiceblog.blogspot.com/ for best WA blog. After all, Robert has gone.
I think we need a couple of extra categories. Since these things are really and truly worth doing well but are Not. Serious., we can have lots of categories. Best Australian link collector is one. Best Australian Battle Blog is another. And, as has been hinted above, Best Australian Special Interest..
Nomination
Name: The Sun Shines & The Igloo Melts
Address: http://www.igloomelts.blogspot.com/
Categories: Best Overseas Australian Blog, Best Australian Photo Blog
Nomination
Best New Blog
Best Personal Blog
Imelda Loves Shoes
http://imeldalovesshoes.blogspot.com/
Her first entry says it all: http://imeldalovesshoes.blogspot.com/2005/03/girl-who-loved-shoes.html
http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/
http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/
Nomination for Best Humourous Australian Blog
and for Best Australian Photo blog
Hands down winner if you had the catagory for best humourous photos – eg this one of John Howard:
http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/2006/01/howard-has-radical-cosmetic-surgery.html
The one's everyone forgot
I cannot believe that so many great sites have been forgotten!!!
Not by me though.
I nominate the following:
A Yobbo’s View for Best Overall, WA and Political
Diary of an Average Australian for best Overall Australian
The Riotact Best ACT
35 Degrees for Best Vic Blog
Hot Water for Best WA blog
Public Opinion and the falimako blog for Best SA Blog
The View from Elsewhere for Best NT blog
Antipixel and Courting Disaster for Overseas blogs
For Best Personal, Invisible Shoebox and What’s New Pussycat
Best Photo Diversionary Daily and Shutterbug
Political – Backpages, Paul & Carls daily diatribe and The Currency Lad
Tech- Anthony J Hicks
And finally, Bleeding Edge, The Shallow End, The Sports Desk and
Webdiary for best mainstream media blog
Nominations are now CLOSED
That’s it!!! No more!!! Nominations are now closed.
Thank you all for your nominations.
A list of the nominees will be posted tomorrow along with the ballot “papers”. Voting will remain open until midday on the 26th of January and the winners will be announced that evening.
nomination
name: the adelaide index
address: www.adelaideindex.com
category: best south australian blog